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History Detectives

<i>AMELIA EARHART PLANE</i> John Ott believes he may have a piece of Amelia Earhart’s airplane, the missing Lockheed L-10E Electra. Monday, August 2 at 9 p.m. on PBS-HD. by Colleen Greer

Elyse Luray tests the shape and the metal of the fragment against another Lockheed Electra, and checks the story against historic records to see if Ott truly has a piece of Earhart’s plane.

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Was this piece of metal ripped from one of history’s most famous airplanes? The contributor believes this piece belonged to Amelia Earhart’s missing Lockheed Electra.

Ott says his grandfather served as a flight mechanic on the airfield in Honolulu where Earhart had a mishap on her first attempt at the flight. She crashed during takeoff, destroying the landing gear and damaging the right wing. His grandfather took a piece of the plane that came off during the accident and sent it to his mother as a souvenir.

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Grace McGuire shows HISTORY DETECTIVES where Jon Ott’s metal piece could have fit on Earhart’s airplane.

Monday, August 2 at 9 p.m on PBS-HD.

HISTORY DETECTIVES

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